By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE There he was, not many months’ distance from civic sainthood in the aftermath of the epic May flood. Rightly or wrongly, even those who’d heretofore been critics were regarding Karl Dean as virtual mayoral royalty. His administration’s reaction to a catastrophe that killed at least 10 people in Nashville...
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Every good magazine editor gets fired from a job at one point in his career. When it happened to Eric Pooley, managing editor of Fortune at the time, he seized the opportunity to launch a book to chronicle the war on climate change.
By Matt Pulle and Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Did decades of poor urban planning make the Nashville Flood worse? What Metro has done right and wrong, and where we go from here.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Their modest home is already in the shadow of mammoth interstate exchanges and the victim of traffic noise. And then the water came. How Gerald and Elouise Williams are faring.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE As culture war idiocy among lawmakers gains more traction, it might be time to consider lanyards with bullet pouches.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE The Farm Bureau and its knuckle-dragging apostles (no offense, chimps) are using all their might to oppose proper penalties for animal abuse.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE What happens when Tennessee's most powerful hospitality CEO compares First Lady Michelle Obama to Tarzan’s Cheeta? Nothing good.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Two years ago, famed documentary filmmaker George Butler was reading The New York Times online and saw a video featuring Bells Bend farmer George West — the kind of guy who wears cowboy hats and duster coats for function and sells turnip greens on the honor system.
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE Fathers don’t so much have to earn the love of sons as just accept it. That’s the lesson of Rick Bragg’s third book about his family, this one exploring the complicated and volatile relationship he had with his handsome, hard-drinking, self-destructive dad and now the one with his stepson.
Sens. Corker and Alexander: the NRA’s Bitches
By Liz Garrigan, NASHVILLE SCENE The relationship between the NRA and Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander is like a bad marriage. They fear a falling out could mean being out on their asses, clothes on the sidewalk, with nothing but herpes and an empty bank account to remember their former bond. Metaphorically speaking.
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